...there is one huge (and ironic) difference. In the current FISA-gate scandal, most of the media and liberal civil libertarians are now opposing the disclosure of public documents. They are siding with those in the government who disingenuously sought surveillance to facilitate the efforts of a political campaign.

This time around, the press is not after a hated Nixon administration. Civil libertarians are not demanding accountability from a conservative Reagan team. Instead, the roles are reversed.

Barack Obama was a progressive constitutional lawyer who expressed distrust of the secretive “Deep State.” Yet his administration weaponized the IRS and surveilled Associated Press communications and a Fox News journalist for reporting unfavorable news based on supposed leaks. Obama did not fit the past stereotypes of right-wing authoritarians subverting the Department of Justice and its agencies. Perhaps that is why there was little pushback against his administration’s efforts to assist the campaign of his likely replacement, fellow Democrat Hillary Clinton....

We found millions of Americans & their doctors going around the traditional health insurance system for non-insurance health care that they say is cheaper and better. Watch Sunday's @FullMeasureNewshttps://t.co/mgSgnXrI2S

If you hear the flu is "getting as bad as swine flu"-- you just might want to remember that the swine flu "epidemic" the govt publicized turned out to be most decidedly *not* as advertised. Here's my investigation from 2009. https://t.co/rtnyBamgy6

For the few who may be interested: Here’s a brief update on my federal lawsuit vs the govt. over its computer intrusions —and how it all relates to current events. 1/2 continued pic.twitter.com/9YV6pUTnYl

Part 2 (Continued) For the few who may be interested: Here’s a brief update on my federal lawsuit vs the govt. over its computer intrusions —and how it all relates to current events. 2/2 pic.twitter.com/uSx9ebD3bj

Former Obama State Department official Jonathan Winer has admitted to feeding anti-Trump info to Clinton friend and ally, Sidney Blumenthal. Winer publicly confirmed Clinton operatives were aware of the dossier. Proving once again Clinton is a liar with her denials of knowing. pic.twitter.com/g2glYZ0y4s

Wow! -Senator Mark Warner got caught having extensive contact with a lobbyist for a Russian oligarch. Warner did not want a “paper trail” on a “private” meeting (in London) he requested with Steele of fraudulent Dossier fame. All tied into Crooked Hillary.

Warner disclosed his contacts, only AFTER the OIG investigation began questioning the Senate Intel Committee. EVERYONE on that committee is compromised, including @marcorubio .That's why Nunes, Goodlatte, Grassley keep arms-length from corruption. Lankford and Cotton should exit. https://t.co/UMdkI331VV

10. It's doubtful Senator Mark Warner was thinking about the scale of how much he was being monitored when he decided to attempt covert messaging with a registered Russian actor to get in touch with a British spy. 🤦‍♂️

14. 08:17 …”these National Security breaches do not just originate from within the Intelligence Community. They come from a wide range of sources within the government, including the Congress.”…https://t.co/bvfVSPYykz

16. Sunday August 6th, 2017, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein reiterated he was going to follow through on the investigative demand of AG Sessions and DNI Coats and again referenced a “new counterintelligence division within the FBI”. pic.twitter.com/JBHGOrzdaS

17. 00:50 …“we’re responding appropriately. We’re going to devote more resources, re-evaluate our procedures and make sure we investigate every one of those leaks in an appropriate way.”… https://t.co/N31WtNZmFD

19. 1:43 “That significant increase has necessitated an increase in resources. And so we have re-prioritized our cases within the National Security Division, we’re providing appropriate supervision at a high level"... https://t.co/N31WtNZmFD

21. It's doubtful Senator Warner even thought through how his efforts would be monitored and captured. It's not accidental that his staff was contacted in September 2017 about his activity; same time-frame when Robert Mueller was notified about his own group of schemers. pic.twitter.com/Oo97QljMW7

23. CNN reports that two independent sources originally leaked to them the contents of what they had seen on the email in question. But CNN never saw the email, until later in the day. "Two independent Sources" pic.twitter.com/NLKNMZbG2W

24. The years-long IG investigation is coming to a conclusion; there have been several high-profile ‘mistakes’ from leaks [The leaks were real, the underlying information was false]; and congress is getting caught participating...

Looks like some US intel officials are using the NYT to do some 'splainin' & spinning before this info came out on its own. (Funny the intel sources didn't report this to Trump, Congress or public at the time). https://t.co/Dr5aPdc132

According to the @nytimes, a Russian sold phony secrets on “Trump” to the U.S. Asking price was $10 million, brought down to $1 million to be paid over time. I hope people are now seeing & understanding what is going on here. It is all now starting to come out - DRAIN THE SWAMP!

CIA and U.S. officials clearly want to distance themselves from the payment for Trump dirt, but I'm guessing they'd be singing a different tune if they thought it was authentic. https://t.co/ExpuQejglO

Palmyra (Eastern Syria) is one of the places where Russia has started establishing permanent bases. Russia has agreed to share the airspace with Iran, which uses it as a transport site for bringing Shiite militia into the country.

Palmyra (Eastern Syria) is one of the places where Russia has started establishing permanent bases. Russia has agreed to share the airspace with Iran, which uses it as a transport site for bringing Shiite militia into the country.

Make no mistake, the Democrats knowingly put information in their memo that would jeopardize our national security knowing Trump couldn’t release it. And, on cue, they’ll blame Trump for “hiding something.”

Nunes: “Intelligence Committee Republicans encourage the minority to accept the DOJ’s recommendations and make the appropriate technical changes and redactions so that no sources and methods are disclosed and their memo can be declassified as soon as possible.” #SchiffMemopic.twitter.com/NrybkmIwos

Thursday, February 8, 2018

...For all the similarities, however, there is one huge difference between 2010 and 2018. It's the difference between Obamacare and the Republican tax cut.

After it passed, Obamacare never gained ground in the court of public opinion. There were no short-term benefits for voters but many unpleasant surprises. Millions were unable to keep their doctor, buying insurance didn't mean you could find a doctor who would take it, and the prices went up rather than down. Over time, the reality of Obamacare proved to be such a drag on Democrats that Republicans now hold more political power than at any point since the 1920s.

In contrast, the tax cut has already seen a big jump in public approval because the results have pleasantly surprised voters. When the bill was being debated, nearly half expected their own taxes would go up. Now, 90 percent are finding more money in their paychecks because their taxes have gone down. Not only that, millions of voters have received cash bonuses and pay raises while the news is filled with stories of companies expanding and hiring more workers. Once again, reality is more powerful than rhetoric....

David Laufman, chief of the counterintelligence section at the Justice Department's National Security Division, has stepped down, per @nakashimae. He played a leading role in the Clinton email server and Russian hacking investigations. https://t.co/nOthRGqnnC

Let me get this straight, Hillary’s campaign used a foreign spy, in contact with Russian sources, to gather information used by the Obama administration to spy on the Trump team? And it’s Trump being accused of collusion? We must be living in Bizarro Superman land. #MemoDay

#UraniumOne informant for FBI testified that Moscow routed millions of dollars to the US with the expectation it would be used to benefit Bill Clinton's charitable efforts while Sec of State Hillary Clinton quarterbacked a “reset” in US-Russian relations. https://t.co/7LcxkGmIee

The Hill’s John Solomon reports the Uranium-One Informant, Douglas Campbell, broke his silence on a Russia plot to steer millions of dollars to the U.S. in an effort to benefit the Clinton Foundation.

The informant, Douglas Campbell, said in the testimony obtained by The Hill that he was told by Russian nuclear executives that Moscow had hired the American lobbying firm APCO Worldwide specifically because it was in position to influence the Obama administration, and more specifically Hillary Clinton. […]

Campbell’s resolve to expose Clinton corruption is nothing short of inspiring. The FBI informant braved “35 intense radiation treatments after being diagnosed with cancer during his time with the FBI,” and still testified for four hours....

So why is it an issue that Obama “wants to know everything we’re doing” & had Comey brief him on Russia probe? Because Obama had said, “I do not talk to FBI directors about pending investigations...I guarantee it.” That quote is here—> https://t.co/oHXKJexu1z

"A number of powerful Obama officials thought they had both moral right and the administrative means to nullify Trump. And they were not shy in breaking the law to exercise them." https://t.co/oTqG0ZFrWB#MAGA#tcot

...Many questions remain, but Democrats, including Obama, are probably not going to look good when we get the answers. Some things still do not add up about the so-called Steele dossier, FISA warrants, the Nunes memo, and the hysterical Democratic reaction to it....

In this context, one of the final executive orders of the Obama administration takes on new significance. Shortly before leaving office, Obama abruptly issued yet another expansion of the Reagan-era Executive Order 12333, dramatically enlarging some 17 government agencies’ legal authority to surveille U.S. citizens — an order that had followed even earlier expansions of the number of officials privy to surveilled information. Why such a radical move in the last days in office? The practical intent of that order might have been inadvertently contextualized by Evelyn Farkas, a former assistant deputy secretary of defense. On MSNBC’s Morning Joe show, she blurted out: I was urging my former colleagues and — and frankly speaking, the people on the Hill, it was more actually aimed — aimed at telling the Hill people, “Get as much information as you can, get as much intelligence as you can before President Obama leaves the administration.” Because, I had a fear that somehow that information would disappear with the senior people who left. So it would be hidden away in the bureaucracy that the Trump folks, the Trump folks, if they found out how we knew what we knew about their, the staff, the Trump staff’s dealing with Russians, that they would try to compromise those sources and methods, meaning we would no longer have access to that intelligence. So I became very worried, because not enough was coming out into the open, and I knew that there was more. We have very good intelligence on Russia. So then I had talked to some of my former colleagues, and I knew that they were trying to also help get information to the Hill. What exactly did she mean by “how we knew what we knew..." ...

...Another, more helpful, exegesis, however, is to understand that if we’d seen a Hillary Clinton victory in November 2016, which was supposed to be a sure thing, there would now be no scandals at all....

Some have wondered why the recently demoted deputy DOJ official Bruce Ohr (who met with the architects of the Fusion GPS file after the election) would have been so stupid as to allow his spouse to work for Fusion — a de facto Clinton-funded purveyor of what turned out to be Russian fantasies, fibs, and obscenities? Again, those are absolutely the wrong questions. Rather, why wouldn’t a successful member of the Obama administrative aparat make the necessary ethical adjustments to further his career in another two-term progressive regnum? In other words, Ohr rightly assumed that empowering the Clinton-funded dossier would pay career dividends for such a power couple once Hillary was elected. Or, in desperation, the dossier would at least derail Trump after her defeat. Like other members of his byzantine caste, Ohr did everything right except that he bet on the wrong horse....

And Barack Obama? We now know that he himself used an alias to communicate at least 20 times with Hillary on her private, non-secure gmail account. But Obama lied on national TV, saying he learned of Hillary’s illegal server only when the rest of the nation did, by reading the news. Would he have dared to lie so publicly if he’d assumed that Trump’s presidency was imminent? Would he ever have allowed his subordinates to use the dossier to obtain FISA warrants and pass around and unmask the resulting surveillance transcripts if he’d seen Trump as the likely winner and a potentially angered president with powers to reinvestigate all these illegal acts?...

The prospect of transparency has triggered panic in the Dems & among its praetorian guard in the media...when transparency hurts dems, the media oppose transparency...there's no excuse for w/holding this doc from the public. Claims to the contrary are just partisan noise #Tucker

BREAKING: Dossiergate looms as a factor in 2018 midterm elections, as 55% of independent voters say it was "likely" that the Obama administration "improperly surveilled the Trump campaign during the 2016 election."https://t.co/DbRJmwmzMR

In the Washington Examiner, Paul Bedard reports that the IBD/TIPP Economic Optimism Index reached its highest level in the past week since 2004. Read more in tonight's edition of West Wing Reads: https://t.co/YCzgGcukgz

Nunes and his team have claimed to members that they've found other examples of politically motivated "wrongdoing" across agencies—including the FBI, DOJ, and State Dept.—and may release as many as five additional memos or reports, according to Axios. https://t.co/t3O0r59vET

Several areas of concern where federal agencies used government resources to try to create a narrative and influence the election. Some have suggested coordination with Clinton operatives Blumenthal and Shearer, to back up the false narrative. https://t.co/gVZOSLqCXf

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